Duncan Stone

Author of Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket. Shortlisted for @sportsbookaward Cricket Book of the Year 2023.

Class - Culture - Environment

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

On #DifferentClass 🏏

"A modern day John Arlott" @PeterHain
"A book all cricket lovers should read" @mihirbose
"the most invaluable contribution to cricket literature this century” @tribunemagazine
“A worthy successor to Mike Marqusee" @bigissuenorth

https://t.co/axiv02lduj

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

"Whats the point of cut price marmalade when a few months ago you promised to nationalise Thames Water?" 🎯

[Mark 🍁 @Markfry809]

“there’s nothing like seeing a cult right up front man”

i can’t stop watching this!
it’s pure fucking gold!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

Camelot!!!! 🗡️

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The biggest scam in the UK is that we have normalised being fucking skint every month while working full time.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.

He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.

By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.

He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.

Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.

An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.

He never stopped and left school at 15.

By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.

In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.

Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.

You’ve probably heard that part.

Here’s the part you haven’t:

He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.

But he never stopped trying to understand his father.

He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.

He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.

He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.

So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.

In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.

He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”

Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”

At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.

2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.

He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”

After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.

He played every character himself and donated every cent.

In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.

In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.

She was his first dog in more than 50 years.

He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.

Then he kept fostering more.

When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.

So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.

Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

Patrick Stewart (as Lenin) knew the score: "Don't trust the liberals, they will betray you" - RIP to a real one

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

Met Sir Pat during my PhD when he was still Chancellor of #Huddersfield University.

Like Roy Castle and James Mason, a fine son of Town. 🩵🤍

[Darren_Lit Roundels🤷🏻‍♂️ @LRoundels]

RIP Elke Sommer [1940 - 2026]❤️
I probably saw her first in A Shot in the Dark where her talent for comedy was apparent.
She totally won me over in Carry on Behind - a marvellous addition to the established cast. Her scenes with Williams are joyous💯

[Tere Felipe @_TereFelipe_]

El señor Zelenski debería mirar bien estas imágenes… Es el líder de la Revolución cubana, Fidel Castro, recibiendo a miles de niños ucranianos que sufrieron exposición a radiación en el accidente de Chernobyl… fueron recibidos en Cuba y tratados integralmente durante más de 20 años sin ningún costo, como un deber humano con el pueblo soviético.

Ayer, Zelenski, en “agradecimiento” por aquel gesto, votó en la ONU a favor de que se mantenga el bloqueo cruel y genocida contra mi país… La miseria humana no tiene límites!

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

This is incredible! On FOX NEWS! 🫢

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

@InnoBystander Bizarre sub clause / insinuation after decades away.

[Domhnall @CogitoEdu]

Ukraine did this after Cuba spent hundreds of millions of dollars treating thousands of sick Ukrainian children from Chernobyl. Cuba spent 20 years providing specialised care they couldn't afford in Ukraine. Ukraine paid nothing, voting to starve Cuba was their payment I guess.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We've waited patiently for a plan to end neoliberalism. We won't wait anymore.

We need rent controls
We need a wealth tax
We need *serious* cuts to energy bills

Instead it's a few pence off gherkins & a payout which the experts say won't touch the sides on energy bills.

[alex thomson @alextomo]

The day after the Chancellor never mentions climate once in his speech - Shell announces profits of over £8,000,000,000.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is so poor.

The Labour Government are utterly failing to meet the scale of this moment.

And all because they're committed to the status quo.

It's urgently time for change.

https://t.co/i9idDx4vyY

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

Bizarre football at Anfield.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow 💚 @0Calamity]

I asked Grok how many nurses could be funded by yet another £10billion being sent to fund the Ukraine war.
This is quite staggering.
#NoWar

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

0.1% of people on the planet emit more CO2 than the poorest 3.5 billion people combined.

One year’s worth of emissions from the top 1% will result in an estimated 1.3 million excess deaths from extreme heat.

Just a few stats from Oxfam's incredible new report.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The budget is Burnham in a nutshell.

Disguised £42 billion a year real terms income tax increase from freezing personal thresholds.

Headline grabbing £2.6 billion giveaway of £100 per household.

£10 billion to Ukraine.

[Duncan Stone @StoneDunk]

@elliot__ross @ewangibbs Hibee Hobsbawn. 😂👌🏻